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DESTINY’S FATE—WHAT THE—?

DF#1 Cover

Tempt Fate! Destiny’s Fate is a self-published miniseries that asks, "What choices do we make in our lives, or are all decisions controlled by a force unbeknownst to us?" KAINOA RYDER is DESTINY, the physical manifestation of a future created by choice, unlike FATE, a future based upon a predetermined outcome. The story chronicles the struggle of Kainoa, a time-traveling assassin who returns home after seven years to fulfill his fate—to kill the defenders of time.

His parents.

On board is an amazing team—a storyboard artist, a comic studio owner, a former Marvel Bullpen freelancer, and me (Devin Leigh Michaels-writer/geek girl). Check below for a preview and more about the project! Click HERE for an extended, high-res, eight-page preview!

DF#1 - Page One

THE CONCEPT

Fate cannot be changed, KAINOA RYDER’s adoptive parents told him. There is a plan, a preordained chain of events no one can alter. If someone tried, the consequences would be grave, for he/she would be rebelling against the laws of time itself. The Ryders know. As DEFENDERS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION, they protect all of time’s events.

Kainoa only remembers his adoptive parents’ words as lies. Stolen by his grandfather—the former head of the Defenders—and raised in Medieval Japan, Kainoa has harnessed the gift of destiny, the ability to travel through time. Where others need the help of a device called an ANCHRON to change time periods, Kainoa only needs a single thought, and where the Defenders protect time, he can rule it.

But the thoughts in his mind are anything but his own. An assassin who obeys without thought, who kills without guilt, fifteen-year-old Kainoa has been given one mission—to infiltrate, to assimilate, and to annihilate the Defenders of the Fourth Dimension—his family. This is his FATE, one even he, the bearer of destiny, can’t escape.

Kainoa by Mau

THE MINISERIES

The seven-issue series chronicles Kainoa’s return from his time with grandfather to his home in twenty-first century New Jersey as he attempts assimilation with the Ryders. The first issue will be released on August 29th, with a book every two months. Each book will be twenty-four pages, a twenty-two-page chapter and a two-page trailer teasing the next issue.

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A GEEK GIRL, THE DARK LORD OF PANDAS, A CLERK-DONE-GOOD, AND A NINJA!

Devin Leigh Michaels is a former DC Comics intern and has been an avid reader of comics for seventeen years. A former professional writing tutor, she has been published in America’s Got Stories and writes press releases as the publicity relation representative for IC Geeks Publishing. When she’s not geeking out, she loads and proofs contracts for Flight Centre, USA, the parent company of Liberty Travel and GoGo Worldwide Vacations. She resides in New Jersey and lives on green tea fraps (non-fat, no whip). @DevinLMichaels

Mauricio Vargas-Martinez is a storyboard artist who has worked on several commercials for companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Snickers, Milky Way, and Cricket, for the Latin American and American markets. He also has worked for advertising directors in Europe, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, and the United States. He resides in Mexico. @122476

Rodrigo Tobias Eyzaguirre is the colorist of Destiny’s Fate and has been a comic book store clerk, a production assistant, and a professional illustrator, the last for ten years. His focus is publicity work doing storyboards, commercial illustrations, and character designs. He also publishes illustrations in Mexican magazines such as Big Bang and Discovery Kids of Editorial Televisa. In 2008 he was the art director and penciller of Angel Caido Cronicas, a comic book miniseries related to the Mexican film Angel Caido before becoming the art director for LHSM Studio, an animation company in Mexico. His own studio, Graphic Leak (www.graphicleak.com.mx), launched in June and offers commercial illustration and animation, including comics.

Taylor Esposito is the letterer for Destiny’s Fate, and works as a graphic designer and production artist. Destined to be a comic geek, Taylor studied graphic design in college, then worked for Marvel in the digital comics department. Eventually, he settled into a position in the Bullpen, doing production work, logo design, and typesetting. He currently works as a production manager at Vertical Inc. when he’s not lettering comics. Some of his works include (as letterer) Samhain Night, Watson and Holmes (for New Paradigm Studios), and (as production artist) such Marvel titles as Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool Team Up, and Invincible Iron Man. He is also a second degree black belt and lives happily with his wife in New Jersey. @TaylorEspo

RETAILERS!

SO WHY ARE YOU KICKSTARTING THIS?

Because making comics is expensive and no one takes a twisted verison of Alton Brown's sugar cookies as payment.

Bad Ass Lysander--an example of a Mau sketch

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY HARD-EARNED MONEY?

I was hoping to fund this completely on my own dime, but making comics cost more than a dime (Who knew?). And a contract loader’s pay does not make enough to produce a comic bi-monthly. Your support will be going to the collaborators and production/printing.

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TEMPTED FATE PACKAGE—Brave soul, ye be. I’ll tell Fate it wasn’t anything personal, but she's making a list of those who tempt her, which will be in a limited run of issue two. You still should cross your fingers in hopes that Kainoa can kick her ass.

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